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anonymph
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Roleplay set to begin sometime later (EST)
Only Light in the Dark began when several months prior to its beginnings, a group of people in hoods and armed with various stolen weapons did something unspeakable. They stole the fruit of the Lux from within the Illuminated's walls without getting caught by the guards and came back to the Pitched. They hadn't taken enough to notify the Illuminated but a figure running in the distance had been spotted by a wandering guard. The group is known as the Matches and they are set on sharing the light to everyone.
The beginning of the RP is at the manor of an affluent Lux farmer and producer, Sir Archer Draven, who hosts a feast and ball for the Illuminated. Ordinarily, this would not have been a surprise. It is when the rest of Moriana is in the midst of a famine. The night of the ball is also when the Matches have decided to steal fruit of the Lux from the very same man. Both ball and feast is held in his manor which is connected with his Lux farm, the target for the Matches. It is only a matter of the characters how this will possibly go.
"It's like we're the Robin Hoods of Moriana, giving light to the dark from the rich to the poor!"
Living on the planet of Osmoria in the Moriana Empire, the people live in darkness. The world the people live in has never received sunlight and it never will. Moriana, surrounded on all sides by oceans and seas, sits on the only inhabitable land possible for humans to survive on. The light that they get is bare but it is not night but neither is it dusk. The moon hangs over their heads and stays there for ten Earth days, one day for the people of Moriana. Though the people have not advanced far, they have something that sets them apart.
Hundreds of years ago, the people of Osmoria lived in small settlements who traded and worked together. One day, an adventurous group of them decided to venture into the thick and overgrown forest. They wandered deep into it with various reactions from the pungent aroma from them. They were awed by the luminescent fungi and the trees towering over them. It was when they encountered the, later named, Lux trees that they knew they had found something amazing.
The fruit of the Lux, large and reliable producers of light, were discovered and the world of Osmoria changed. The land was bought and sold to the highest bidder; the wealthy and elite gathered around the forest, their Lux farms. Society was created and civilization began with a strict line between who was who: the ones who bask in the light with large manors and Lux after Lux in their land; the ones who reside in the dark, whether they are poor or middle-class who could work in the light farms without ever benefiting from their labor. The people are called the Illuminated and the Pitched.
There are rebellions and there are uprisings, but they are hardly any real trouble. The story begins when the trouble becomes a genuine threat to the way Moriana has worked and you are a part of it.
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Would very much prefer if there were an equal amount of characters in each group.
- Illuminated: you will live in filthy wealth in the center of Moriana Empire. You either own the Lux or your produce the light to sell to those who can afford it. Light is a commodity to you and the lower class call you "Ill" to insult you. You live in your own society, surrounded by other Illuminated and rarely do you so much as set foot in the Pitched's areas and markets. You are a typical spoiled elitist. Or maybe you're not?
- Pitched: you will live either in poverty or the middle class. You scrounge around and survive as much as you can. Some of you will be the workers in the Lux farms, so close to the light and not getting to use it at all. With so much exposure to the Lux though, you have the same health advantages as the Illuminated. The Illuminated call you "Pits" and don't see the difference between the poor and the middle-class.
- Matches: you could be either an Illuminated or a Pitched. The Matches' headquarters is an abandoned Lux farm and you laugh because the Ill bigots won't even think someone would take their old farms. You are trained to be able to defend yourself in case you run into the guards and are sent to steal the Lux fruits to give to the Pitched. Who knows why you're helping them out. Justice? Maybe. Kindness? Aren't you nice. Selfishness? Probably.
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